More than one taxon or category.

What are the benefits to classifying organisms through taxonomy?

It gives us a way to keep all the life on Earth organized.

What are the 8 categories IN ORDER from broad to most specific?

Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

What is the easiest way to make a dichotomous key?

Divide into 2 groups, and divide 1 again until you identify.

Are plants heterotrophs or autotrophs?

Autotrophs - they make their own food

Why do we call Linnaeus the father of taxonomy?

He created the modern system we use today.

How do we classify with different groups or taxa?

We order organisms, based on similarity, broad to specific.

How do we write binomials?

Genus Capitalized, species not capitalized, and underlined.

Botanist John Ray had several ideas . His best idea, even though he used super long names, was

Naming with Latin, used by educated people worldwide.

Why do we use binomials to name living things? How does it help us?

It keeps us from confusing life or using misnomers.

How do we type binomials.

Genus capitalized, species uncapitalized, italicized.

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Classification and Taxonomy Review

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1
What are taxa?
The name used for a specific animal.
A group of taxis.
More than one taxon or category.
2
What is a taxon?
A group or category.
The first part of taxonomy.
A different name for organisms.
The opposite of a taxoff.
3
What are the benefits to classifying organisms through taxonomy?
It gives us a way to make naming things more complicated.
It helps us think up new categories to organize.
It gives us a way to keep all the life on Earth organized.
We figure out groups of animals when their fur is the same.
4
What are the 8 categories IN ORDER from broad to most specific?
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Domain
Kingdom Phylum Order Class Family Domain Genus Species
Species Genus Family Order Class Phylum Kingdom Domain
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
5
What is the easiest way to make a dichotomous key?
Divide into small groups and work towards bigger groups.
Divide into 2 groups, and divide 1 again until you identify.
Write down the species first and work backward.
Put organisms into specific order and write steps to match.
6
What do fungi have that plants do not?
A cell wall made of cellulose
No cell wall
A cell wall made of chitin
7
What languages are scientific names always translated to as part of the system??
Old English
Latin or Greek
Greek or English
German and Lithuanian
8
What does Bacteria have that Archaea doesn't?
No peptidoglican cell wall
Cellulose cell wall
No cell wall
Peptidoglycan cell wall
9
Are plants heterotrophs or autotrophs?
Heterotrophs - they eat outside sources
Autotrophs - they make their own food
10
Which two kingdoms are BOTH prokaryotes?
Plants and Bacteria
Protista and Archaea
Fungi and Animals
Archaea and Bacteria
11
Why do we call Linnaeus the father of taxonomy?
He created the modern system we use today.
He took all the previous work and put his name on it.
He gave himself the nickname because science.
12
Binomial translates to ____________ ______________.
Small Names.
Complicated Name.
four names.
Two Names.
13
Who was the first person to classify life into plants and animals?
Theophrastus
Plinius
Aristotle
14
What classification was NOT in Linnaeus' original system?
Phylum
Domain
Genus
Family
15
Sponges are animals or plants?
Plants
Animals
16
What are the three domains?
Eukarya, Protist, Bacteria
Plants, Animals, Fungi
Protists, Plants, Animals
Eukarya, Bacteria, Archaea
17
How do we classify with different groups or taxa?
We order organisms, based on differences, broad to specific.
We order organisms, based on similarity, broad to specific.
We give them lovely names and hope for the best.
We throw them in random categories wherever they fit best.
18
How do we write binomials?
Genus Capitalized, species not capitalized, and underlined.
Genus Capitalized, species not capitalized, and italicized.
Genus not capitalized, species capitalized and underlined.
Genus Capitalized, species not capitalized.
19
Botanist John Ray had several ideas . His best idea, even though he used super long names, was
Naming with Latin, used by educated people worldwide.
Color coding the organisms to match their categories.
Writing letters to Linnaeus about his work.
Using German, which was a beautiful language.
20
Why do we use binomials to name living things? How does it help us?
It makes the names of organisms sound fancy.
It prevents the use of common names.
It keeps us from confusing life or using misnomers.
It gives us more things to remember about a name.
21
How many choices does each step of a dichotomous key give you?
3
2
4
1
22
Animals reproduce by
Asexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction
Both
23
How do we type binomials.
Genus capitalized, species uncapitalized, italicized.
Genus capitalized, species uncapitalized, underlined.
Genus not capitalized, species capitalized.
Genus capitalized, italicized and underlined.

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